In the early morning of February 1, the Ukrainian unmanned boat sneaked into Lake Donuzlav in western Crimea and launched an attack on the Project 1241 Spider-class missile boat Ivanovits. Under the siege of 9 suicide unmanned boats, the side sunburn anti-ship missile exploded, and the Ivanovitz was blown to pieces......
If the Ivanovitz has really entered a state of combat readiness, then the siege of a few unmanned boats is tantamount to sending people off for the Ivanovitz. But the Russian Navy, which neglected combat readiness, blew the Ivanovitz to pieces.
The sinking of the Ivanovitz reflects Russia's slackness in the war.
If the crockpot is not broken from Inoue, the general will inevitably die in battle, and for a warship born for war, it is extremely glorious to die on the battlefield. In the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Russian Navy has lost a series of warships, including the Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva and the Project 22800 missile frigate Askold.
The diagram of 22800 is used as 22160, which should be changed, but the original file of the diagram cannot be found on the plate......
However, the Glorious-class is really not very good at dealing with low-altitude sea-skimming anti-ship missiles, and regardless of whether the Moskva did not activate the prevention and control system, or the Moskva activated the SA-N-4 airsoft group fire control radar, whether it can accurately detect and intercept the incoming Neptune anti-ship missiles is also a difficult question to answer.
The Project 22800 missile frigate Ascord was in a state of outfitting at the time of the attack. The Askold, which was ducked to intercept the unmanned boat before it entered service, took advantage of the berthing to seize the time to debug the subsystem, and the explanation that the air defense system could not be started is not unacceptable.
Kilo-class submarines, Type 775 tank landing ships, Type 1171 tank landing ships, air defense capabilities are either equal to zero, or infinitely close to zero. In the face of Ukrainian missiles, it is normal that there is no power to fight back. After all, these warships have never thought about how to deal with anti-ship missiles flying at high subsonic speeds, let alone stealth anti-ship missiles flying at high subsonic speeds.
But the Project 1241 missile boat Ivanovits is powerless in the face of Ukrainian unmanned boats, which is really a bit too much to say. THE PROJECT 1241 MISSILE BOAT IVANOVITZ WAS COMMISSIONED ON DECEMBER 30, 1989, WITH A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 41 KNOTS, AND WAS ARMED WITH AN AK-176 SINGLE-BARRELED 76MM RAPID-FIRE GUN, TWO AK-630 CLOSE-IN DEFENSE GUNS, AND FOUR SUNBURN ANTI-SHIP MISSILES. The air defense and anti-submarine are very bad, but the anti-ship capabilities are quite good, and the close defense is also quite good.
If Ukraine attacked the Ivanovitz with suicide drones, then it is understandable that the Ivanovitz could not intercept it, after all, the air defense capability of the entire family barrel of the 1241 missile boat is very bad, as long as there are slightly more incoming drones, the 1241 missile boat will take care of one or the other, and it is inevitable that it will be hit.
The problem is that the Ivanovitz is a threat and a conventional maritime threat, not some new concept threat (the essence of an unmanned boat attack is a suicide attack in a small boat, and after all, pirates are not much shorter than human history) As long as the Ivanovitz is fully prepared, it is easy to retreat in the face of a siege by a small boat.
Aiming at the soft underbelly, the Ukrainian unmanned boat that is desperately bombed
However, the relevant video released by Ukraine shows that three unmanned boats directly hit the Ivanovits, one hit the underside of the sunburn, the second hit the stern of the ship, paralyzing half of the power, and the third hit the underside of the sunburn again. There was a large explosion on the Ivanovitz, the stern sank into the water, and the bow was cocked high.
The bow of the ship is cocked to meet the dead Ivanovitz
Lieutenant General Budanov of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Agency said that the unmanned boat that attacked the Ivanovits came from the 13th unmanned boat unit of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service, and that the Ukrainian Navy's suicide unmanned boat hit the Ivanovits six times.
The unmanned boat used to attack the Ivanovitz is the MAGURA V5 unmanned boat developed by the Ukrainian state-owned enterprise SpetsTechnoExport, which is 5.5 meters long, with a payload of 320 kg, a cruising speed of 22 knots, a maximum speed of 42 knots, a maximum range of 450 nautical miles, and a freeboard height of only 0.5 meters, which is difficult to identify.
The video shows that the damage effect of the MAGURA V5 unmanned boat is average. After being attacked by two unmanned boats, the Ivanovitz still retains the ability to counterattack. AK-630s are still firing at incoming unmanned boats. After being hit under the Sunburn anti-ship missile again by the unmanned boat, it exploded and sank.
Brilliant fireworks
For a small boat with a full load displacement of only 580 tons, such anti-sinking performance is quite good. After all, the Sheffield has only resisted one shot of the 165-kilogram warhead Exocet, and it is great that a 500-ton boat can resist three rounds of a 320-kilogram unmanned boat.
As for the martyrdom of the bombing? Since the Soviet Navy, which advocates attack, has chosen to set the anti-ship missiles on the side, it means that the Soviet Navy has been mentally prepared for the death of the anti-ship missiles in the event of an attack on the side side. 1241, modern and glorious are all used as paper drawing ships. The Soviets had long been mentally prepared for the battleship not to come back when they went out.
But if the Russians were really on high alert and calmly responded to the attack of the unmanned boats, the Ivanovitz would never have died at sea because of the attack of several unmanned boats. The Project 22160 patrol boat, which intercepted a large number of Ukrainian unmanned boats with rapid-fire rapid-fire guns of the А-220М type, was highly praised.
The rate of fire of the AK-176 rapid-fire gun of the 1241 is certainly not as high as the 300 rounds per minute of the AK-220, but the rate of fire is also as high as 135 rounds per minute. THE 76MM RAPID-FIRE CANNON IS CAPABLE OF SINKING A 5-METER RUNABOUT WITH A SINGLE HIT. However, the video shows that the AK-176 of the twice-attacked Ivanovitz is still pointing forward, not turning its muzzle to meet the enemy.
In the 37th second of the video, as shown in the picture, the AK-176 did not turn after the two attacks
If the Ivanovitz discovers the traces of the Ukrainian unmanned boat in time, it will take advantage of the range advantage of the AK-176 to fly the kite of the Ukrainian unmanned boat to increase the chance of interception and extend the interception window. How could the Ivanovitz sink?
And the maximum speed of the Ivanovitz is as high as 41 knots, and the maximum speed of the Ukrainian unmanned boat is 42 knots. The Ivanovitz did not do so, however.
The sinking of the Ivanovitz reflects how lax the combat readiness of the Russian Navy is. But if Russia really paid a little attention to this conflict, the losses of the Russian Navy would not have been so heavy. If the crew of the Moskva had not been so lax, with the SA-N-4 with the AK-630, it would not have been impossible for the Moskva to intercept the incoming Neptune anti-ship missiles, and if the Ivanovitz had not been so lax. The Ivanovitz will not have to rely on AK-630 close-in guns to intercept the enemy.
Water droplets stirred up by AK-630
Summing up the performance of the Black Sea Fleet, we will find that the performance of new ships such as 22160 and 11356M in this war is okay. 21631, 11661 and other small boats carrying artillery did not take on the task of land strikes. But the performance of old ships such as Glorious, 775, 1171, and 1241 in this war is that they can't take it at all. The older 1135 frigates Ladne and Curiosity watched the whole drama directly, and the war was so fierce that these two old men never moved their nests......
It can only be said that no matter what the outcome of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is, under the stimulus of the war, the Russian Navy will inevitably make drastic moves to promote the modernization and reform of surface ship forces, and the retirement of old Soviet ships will be greatly accelerated.